The Pillars of Hercules are the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The northern Pillar, Calpe Mons, is the Rock of Gibraltar...
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Bar Hercules, historically the Pillars of Hercules, was a pub in Greek Street, Soho, London, originally named for the Pillars of Hercules of antiquity...
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Atlantis (redirect from Empire of Atlantis)
indications of the time of the events (more than 9,000 years before his time) and the alleged location of Atlantis ("beyond the Pillars of Hercules") gave...
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commissioned by King Mohammed VI. Cave of Hercules Pillars of Hercules Wikimedia Commons has media related to Caves of Hercules, Tanger. Duckeck, Jochen. "Grottes...
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Spanish dollar (redirect from Pillar Dollar)
origin of the "$" symbol, which originally had two vertical bars, to the pillars of Hercules wrapped in ribbons that appear on the reverse side of the Spanish...
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Irminsul (category History of North Rhine-Westphalia)
number of theories surround the subject of the Irminsul. In Tacitus' Germania, the author mentions rumors of what he describes as "Pillars of Hercules" in...
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Hercules (/ˈhɜːrkjʊˌliːz/, US: /-kjə-/) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical...
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The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean is a travelogue written by the American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux, first published...
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Ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules, location hypotheses include Helike, Thera, Troy, and the North Pole. Most theories of the placement of Atlantis center...
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of Gibraltar, the northern of the two historic Pillars of Hercules, was known to the Romans as Mons Calpe ("Mount Calpe"), the other southern pillar on...
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